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Verse Chorus Verse: STONEYHUNGA - SWIDT
28 Jul 2017Spycc and INF give us a track-by-track breakdown of the SWIDT crew's debut album.
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How Gaylene Preston captured an inglorious moment in UN history
28 Jul 2017My Year with Helen isn't a story of defeat - it's one of strength.
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The case for a Zero Carbon Act
27 Jul 2017Our MPs need to act now for New Zealand's future, writes Generation Zero's James Young-Drew.
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Climate change targets should be legally binding.
27 Jul 2017The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment says politicians must work together to put carbon emission targets into law.
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The Singles Life: A beginner's guide to SWIDT
27 Jul 2017Haven’t heard of SWIDT? We can barely contain our pity. With their new album out this week, there has never been a better time to get acquainted with the guys Aaradhna called “the future of hip hop”.
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The real Kiwi hero of Dunkirk
26 Jul 2017At 22, Al Deere became a hero shooting down German planes during the Dunkirk evacuations.
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Synthetic cannabis: The killer high
26 Jul 2017Eight deaths in just over a month. People know it's killing them. So why are they smoking it?
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People don’t want media to rip-off their Facebook and Twitter posts - study
25 Jul 2017“Just because it’s viral, doesn’t mean it should be broadcast as news.”
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The Beguiled: Another rumination on the insular, impenetrable world of wealthy white girlhood
24 Jul 2017The Beguiled may be a detour for Sofia Coppola, but somehow all roads lead to the same place.
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Weekly Reading: Best longreads on the web
22 Jul 2017Lana Del Rey's new music; MTV in the modern era; The ongoing R. Kelly nightmare; and the tragic passing of Chester Bennington.
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Keeping up with the Kontentsphere
21 Jul 2017This week: Todd Barclay's big comeback, Kevin Hart's busy hands, Beyonce's lovely babies and Max Key's sister's cultural appropriation.
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Emerging artists explore housing, political, celebrity issues
21 Jul 2017“This is a generation who will graduate in debt, who are faced with a precarious working life and a world threatened by political and environmental crises.”
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The Square is the quintessential film festival film - with a twist
21 Jul 2017Part social commentary, part satire, the Swedish Palme d’Or winner will draw in festy goers like moths to flames. But is it laughing with, or at, its audience?
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The Singles Life: Theia and the state of post-Lorde pop
20 Jul 2017Has Lorde's success changed the New Zealand pop landscape for women as much as we hoped? We talk the post-Lorde pop-scape and what this means for a rising star like Theia.
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Dunkirk is more than a typical Christopher Nolan moneymaker - It's a masterpiece
20 Jul 2017War has never looked like this before.
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Psychopaths: Mean, misunderstood, and mistreated?
20 Jul 2017We talk to Professor Devon Polaschek about what makes a psychopath.
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Meet the GirlBoss getting young women into science and tech
19 Jul 2017“I’ll know my vision has been reached when we close the gender gap.”
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Gareth Morgan wants to give $200 each week to every young NZer, no strings
18 Jul 2017An economic expert says it isn’t enough to help those who need it most.
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Oceanic stories for the 21st century
18 Jul 2017A new collection of writing creates a conversation about kinship across the Pacific.
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'It's not a happy place' - Life in the Kayan villages of Thailand
18 Jul 2017Questionable ethics behind the scenes of villages that are billed as a tourist attraction.
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50 hot takes from the Game of Thrones season premiere
17 Jul 2017Stark women rule, Ed Sheeran drools: We react to the biggest television event of the year.
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The new Doctor Who is a woman and you shouldn’t be remotely surprised
17 Jul 2017A Doctor Who die hard on why the future is female.
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